Product Description: We accept the universal right to live in freedom and without oppression, but are our human rights adequately protected by Australian law? Arguments about the need for a bill of rights in Australia have simmered for fifty years. While attempts to introduce a national bill of rights have failed, recently the states and territories have taken on a pioneering role with statutory bills...read more

Product Description: The last two decades have seen major advances in the legal protection of the human rights of women around the world. A series of international and national court cases has developed an important body of jurisprudence that has been relied on by courts and advocates in many countries to support women's claims for equality and the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms...read more

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Product Description: This book is a collection of papers presented at the Asian/South Pacific colloquium in 1996 to discuss how international human rights norms can be used to protect the human rights of women and girl-children in a domestic context. It examines the challenges involved and explores the ways in which international human rights standards can be relied on to achieve that goal...read more